# Moods, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Downings, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,549,608 m² (154.96 ha, 382.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,216 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Downings, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/downings.md - Barony: Clane - Electoral division: Robertstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,344 people lived in 781 households in the Robertstown electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26078 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80876 - Centre: latitude 53.27538, longitude -6.793696 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moods, from 393 m² to 680,558 m² (68.06 ha, 168.17 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1074134: 680,558 m² (68.06 ha, 168.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074134.md - Parcel 1055450: 87,015 m² (8.7 ha, 21.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055450.md - Parcel 1082234: 75,715 m² (7.57 ha, 18.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082234.md - Parcel 1054079: 55,139 m² (5.51 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054079.md - Parcel 1030071: 48,886 m² (4.89 ha, 12.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030071.md - Parcel 1019798: 46,775 m² (4.68 ha, 11.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019798.md - Parcel 1027087: 22,164 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027087.md - Parcel 1089946: 18,315 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089946.md - Parcel 1057218: 16,585 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057218.md - Parcel 1014906: 15,333 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014906.md - Parcel 1034681: 15,055 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034681.md - Parcel 5132628: 14,320 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5132628.md - Parcel 5266540: 8,889 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5266540.md - Parcel 1053581: 5,833 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053581.md - Parcel 1030070: 4,433 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030070.md - Parcel 1047336: 3,959 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047336.md - Parcel 4984054: 3,766 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984054.md - Parcel 3566032: 3,399 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3566032.md - Parcel 1088263: 3,032 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088263.md - Parcel 1065571: 2,783 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065571.md - Parcel 1040694: 2,720 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040694.md - Parcel 2421203: 2,621 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2421203.md - Parcel 2631232: 2,607 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2631232.md - Parcel 1042458: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042458.md - Parcel 4389383: 2,522 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4389383.md - Parcel 1089250: 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089250.md - Parcel 2421173: 2,409 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2421173.md - Parcel 1087777: 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087777.md - Parcel 1090454: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090454.md - Parcel 1020036: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1020036.md - Parcel 4643703: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643703.md - Parcel 1059297: 1,713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059297.md - Parcel 3566014: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3566014.md - Parcel 1013160: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013160.md - Parcel 3315100: 1,245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3315100.md - Parcel 2421239: 393 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2421239.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Moods in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 21 May 2026, Kildare County Council 2660537: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling, a secondary treatment system, a road entrance and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660537/0 - 30 Nov 2023, Kildare County Council 2360426: Conditional. Retention. for retaining single storey extensions & alterations to a bungalow including alterations to elevations, a detached domestic garage, and all associated ancillary site-works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360426/0 - 4 Sept 2017, Kildare County Council 17999: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. of: (a) First floor attic conversion and increase in overall height to that previously granted under planning file Ref. 08/1224 from 5.495m to 6.115m; (b) Retention of existing garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) Planning permission for the lowering of 3 No. existing rooflights to provide means of escape. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17999/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballynafagh Lake SAC, site code 001387, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001387 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD013-018001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD013-018001-. Near the top of a long and very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. A circular area (int. diam. 53m) is defined by a low, inner earthen bank (Wth 1.7m along S, where altered and hedged as a field boundary, -8.6m at N; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), a shallow outer fosse (Wth 1.5-2.1m; D 0.3-0.7m) SE-SW-NNW, and part of a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.2m) NE-ESE. A heavily poached gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank at NE with revetting stones along its S side is the original entrance, while a second gap (Wth 2.3m) in that bank at ENE is a later feature. A possibly contemporary field boundary (KD013-018002-) abuts the monument at NNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD013-018002: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD013-018002-. Running N-S across a long and very gentle NW-facing pasture slope to meet a ringfort (KD013-018001-) at its S end. A low earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; H 0.2-0.6m) is traceable for a short distance (L 7m) running N from a ringfort (KD013-018001-) and its line is traceable as a low scarp (H 0.6m over E) running c. 80m to the N. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moods. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Moods, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2620, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2620.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moods.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moods.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moods.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moods with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolree: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolree-80395.md - Downings North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/downings-north.md - Downings South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/downings-south.md - Graigues: https://everytownland.com/kildare/graigues.md - Mylerstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mylerstown-80913.md - Newtowndonore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtowndonore.md - Robertstown East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/robertstown-east.md - Robertstown West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/robertstown-west.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moods - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/moods